Deebster

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• Logic
• Exploration
• Psychological Horror

Love it.

Interesting stuff about the plugs, thanks.

I did quickly fact-check myself after posting and my brief reading suggested that it was possible to break the port, motherboard, or the peripheral, but that it was rare and more likely to cause corruption and/or crashes.

E.g. some anecdata in https://superuser.com/questions/172420/is-it-safe-to-hot-swap-a-ps-2-keyboard and https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/50883/why-some-computer-peripherals-should-not-be-disconnected-without-turning-off-thi

And when the bits feel off the end and you had to wind them back on with a pencil.

I was always told that you shouldn’t (dis)connect a keyboard when it was on because it could short circuit and fry something. This was before USB, of course.

And having to pick your IRQ when installing anything into your machine, and the weird bugs that could happen if you mucked it up.

Even if you’re using one of these?